Score: 2
"Far too simplistic to carry any meaning."
date: October 20, 2010
The "game" did nothing to convey a real message because there really was nothing to the game at all. The only message it conveys is that, "Praying for things to happen and then doing nothing about it doesn't do anything." which really isn't much of a message. After all, your guy can sit there praying forever, but it's not like anything bad happens to him either. He just kind of stays in a limbo which distracts from any impact this flash carries.
There could have been a ton of things that you could have done to do more with this. I was actually thinking it would have been really interesting if your surroundings started to change the longer you just sat their and just prayed, like people coming and repossessing the items in your home, or getting yourself evicted and eventually praying out in the street. Likewise you could choose to go out the door where your character would work and come back home, with a string of that action slowly changing your character for the better and giving him that wealth.
Either way, I don't much care for broad sweeping statements about the negative or positive effects of religion, which is why I was so disappointed with just how weak this was and how much it could have been with a little more thought or effort.
